Pierre L. Siklos, Ph.D., specializes in macroeconomics, with an emphasis on the study of central banks. His research has been published in several international journals. His research has been funded by domestic and international agencies. In 1999, he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and in 2009 he was a William Evans Fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Pierre was Wilfrid Laurier University’s (WLU’s) University Research Professor for the academic year 2000–2001, and a member of the Czech National Bank’s Research Advisory Committee between 2012 and 2018. In 2008-9, Pierre held the chair of the Bundesbank Foundation of International Monetary Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. He is a guest professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany, a research fellow at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and was the Fondation France-Japon/ Banque de France Fellow for 2021–2022.